Greater Mexico City

Spanish conquistadors should not be glorified after all the historical events that have taken place. The Spaniards caused massacres that killed thousands of people. The Spanish had a harsh social class structure with unfair classification and judgment. The Spanish also really wanted wealth and growth of their culture and population. The Spanish conquistadors should not be glorified, the Aztecs would kill others as a sacrifice to the gods they believed in. Similarly, “The Spaniards…

SUBJECT MATTER 2. Subject: This artwork depicts many of Mexico’s famous historical figures from 400 years worth of history. Viewers are able to see historical personages such as Hernan Cortes, Sor Juana, and Porfirio Diaz. Famous artists such as Frida Kahlo, Jose Guadalupe Posada, and even Rivera himself can be seen in the center of the painting. A skeleton figure, known by the name Dame Catrina, is also seen in the center holding on to both Rivera and Posada. 3. Iconography: Frida Kahlo can be…

In a distant land, there was a famous city where the Aztec’s god had told them to look for. Tenochtitlan, surrounded by "floating gardens" and high mountains, was beautiful and very well-organized. One day, an Aztec merchant went up to the Great Temple to ask the priest to interpret his dream. As he arrived, his eyes immediately flashed on the majestic temple. It was standing about ninety feet high, two stepped pyramids rising side by side on a huge platform of this ginormous structure.…

Cortes are very important throughout history. Conquering the Aztecs was very important to Cortes, who was captain. Him and his soldiers planned and landed in Mexico in 1519; with 550 men, sixteen horses, and ten cannon. Hernan Cortes was a soldier in the expedition of Cuba that was led by Diego Vasquez and then later they sent him to Mexico and they were searching for fame, adventure, gold, and a new territory for Spain. Religion was a significant role during the conquest for both the…

powerful and memorable works tend to be those that come from an artist with great struggles, for the emotion of that struggle is embedded in every brush on the canvas. Albeit from two contrary cultures and century, Frida Kahlo born and raised in 1900’ Mexico and Annette Bezor from 1950’, Australia, the two woman have both made impact in the feminist world with their paintings, expressing similar issues the separate women deal with, investigations into woman and their cultural roles, female…

In history during the time period of the 1930s several movements and new ideas were coming into play such as the expansion of capitalism, industrialism and Latin American culture in the United States. Gaps between the social classes began to arise quickly and the lower classes were affected greatly with poverty and strains to their labor work. Diego Rivera a Mexican painter created “the Flower Carrier” an oil based Masonite in 1935 as a method with the painting of bright colors, geometric shapes…

I chose to write my essay on Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th. They celebrate by having parades, festivals, parties, dancing, fireworks, feasts and much more. They hang Mexican flags everywhere this day. They blow whistles and horns and throw confetti is thrown everywhere. Everything is decorated in green, red, and white. The background behind Mexican Independence Day is that the Mexicans wanted to break away from Spain. But Spain didn’t want that. When…

Mexico is 761,000 square miles, all of Mexico fits in the United States. Mexico has a current population of about 129 million people. The president of Mexico is Enrique Peña Nieto he is 50 years old and is the 57th president. Enrique was born in Atlacomulco mexico on July 20th 1966. He attended school in Alfred Maine his junior year in 1979. Mexico The capital of Mexico is Mexico City and Mexico City is home to about 9 million people. The other 120 million people live across the 188,000 square…

Maria Ibanez will do only harm for our already weak country. In this country, we have lost many lives we have dwindled down to so little. I know that we are desperate. We are the child yearning for our mother’s sweet arms. Maria is not our mother we need a leader that will join the people instead of dividing them. Hitler used the Jews, people with differences as scapegoats for the depression we as minorities and as people who should celebrate diversity need to ban together. I will not stand by…

The Mexican Revolution and the Russian Revolution were two very significant events in the history of their two respective societies of Mexico and Russia during the early twentieth century. There are certain ideals that can be used to compare and contrast both of the revolutions. Both of the revolutions were to gain rights and better conditions for the lower class/poor. They both attempted to gain these better rights by replacing the government that was in place with a different one. Both of the…